jonathan schaub talked about prophylactic executive privilege. ew. i know. has absolute constitutional authority to further the president s constitutional authority to assert executive privilege. put this, him claiming privilege, in a larger context of how the white house is approaching this. the larger context of the republican party. you have to partly see there s a way we view trump as exceptional and the way he is because of his willingness to completely repeatedly cross the line of moral decency, of what we consider the law. but this is a party that has systematically gerrymandered to exclude and dilute the vote of people who they don t like and who they tend to vote for, especially people of color. this is a party that has systematically intimidated, threatened, cracked down on immigrants, documented and nondocumented. this is a party that has tried